Question

The following question comprise of one or more statements. Answer the question on the basis of the given statement (s) . Accept the factual assumptions required by the question , even if you believe that the statement is false.
Statement: -Democrats are secularists.
Which of the following statements, if true, would show that the above statement is false?

• A. My father is a secularist but he is not a democrat.
• B. My father is a democrat but he is not secularist.
• C. My father is a democrat and he is secularist.
• D. My father is neither a democrat nor a secularist

Answer 1

The correct option is B My father is a democrat but he is not secularist.

The statement says that all democrats are secularists.Option (b) which says 'My father is a democrat but he is not a secularist ' makes the statement false because there is one democrat who is not a secularist. Thus we can't say all democrats are secularists.